Belt.



L. TANNERe BELT.

APPLIOATION'IILBD JAN. 26. 1907.

898,700. Patented Se t/15,1908.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONA TANNER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BELT.

No, 898,700. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 15, 1908. Application filed January 26, 1907. Serial No. 354,275.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONA TANNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usebuckles O, C, C, of which three or five should ful Improvements in Belts, of which the folbe used, though I have shown but 3 in this lowing is a specification. I instance. In the use of these buckles certain desired efiect will be secured and made permanent.

The belt is held to place to securely support it and the skirt, by the use of the back My invention relates to improvements in of them, as C, C, are placed with the hooks e belts for use in connection with the supportprojecting in, or toward the body of the ing of skirts by attaching certain portions of wearer so that they may be secured to the the belt to the waist or corset and. certain corset, waist, or other support to hold the other portions of the belt to the skirt, and its belt and its load up to place, and certain of objects are: First, to provide a belt with the buckles, as C, are placed with these which the front of the skirt may be made to hooks in the opposite direction so that they assume an appearance of dipping or dropmay be attached to the skirt or skirts they ping gracefully down and will be heldsecurely are designed to support. Buckles of pracin this position so as to give an appearance tically this make have been in use before but of slimness to fleshy persons, and, second, to the attachment of the hooks has been so inprovide supporting buckles that will not besecure as to render them very unsatisfactory. come easily disconnected, or, in other words To remedy this I have used a unitary wire with which the supporting portion or hooks E and folded it so that the loop 6 will engage will not become easily disconnected from the the projection c at the upper edge of the plate or body that supports them. I attain late C and the hooks e will fold over the these objects by the structure illustrated in ower edge of the plate O, thus forming a con-.

the accompanying drawing in which nection between the two that will obviate all Figure 1 is a perspective of the belt comdanger of the hooks being disconnected from plete. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the front plate the plate C by the weight of the garments belooking at it from the back. Fig. 3 is an edge ing supported by these buckles.

elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a back eleva- The wire support D is secured to the plate tion of the back buckle, and Fig. 5 is an end B by being passed through the loops 6, b in Similar letters refer to similar parts other available means, and the small bucthroughout the several views. kles C, C, C may be secured to the fabric porview of the same. the plate, or they may be secured by any A represents the fabric portion of the belt. tion or girdle of the belt, A, by passing the represents the front plate, which may be I fabric or girdle through the loops 0 c at the connected with the fabric A by means of inends of the buckles in such a manner that termediate buckles, as b, as indicated in the surface of the late 0 from which the ig. 1, or in any other available manner. hooks 6 project wil be left uncovered, to This plate is provided with, or supports a give to the hooks the greatest possible efficonnecting wire D that has a hook d at the ciency when hooked into the supporting eleupper end, that is designed to hook over the ment, as a waist, a corset or a skirt. waist-band of a skirt, as indicated by the The buckles C and C are alike except that dotted lines f, in Fig. 1, for the purpose of the buckles C are arranged with the small holding the front of the waist-band of the hooks e projecting inward from the upper skirt down to produce the effect called dip edge to secure the buckles to the waist, corin the skirt, and to hold the plate down to set, or other garment to hold the buckles and place so that the waist-band of the skirt cantheir load up to place, and the buckle C has not raise up to the position it would assume like hooks projecting outward from its lower edge, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, to engage the form two hooks at the otherend of the wire D, waistband of the skirts to hold them up to as indicated at d, which are designed to hook I place. under the lower edge of the corsets, as indi- Having thus fully described my invention, cated by the dotted lines f in Fig. 2, so that what I claim as new and desire to secure by with the hooks (1 under the corsets and the Letters Patent of the United States, is

hook (2 over the waist-band of the skirt the 1. In a belt, a girdle, a front plate secured to the girdle, a wire support secured to the plate at right angles therewith and projecting above it, an outwardly curved hook at the upper endlof the wire and inwardly curved hooks at the lower end of the wire, and small supporting bucklessecured to the girdle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a belt, a girdle, a front plate secured to the ends of the girdle and a wire support secured to and projecting up from the plate, an outwardly curved hook at the upper end of the wire and inwardly curved hooks at the lower end of the wire, and supporting buckles formed with a plate and a wire woven around the edges of the plate with hooks projecting outward from the plate, as shown and described.

3. A belt consisting of a girdle, a plate l curved downward to form a dip in the belt, a wire secured to the plate, an out wardly curved hook at top of said wire and inwardly curved hooks at the lower end of the wire inside of the plate, and small supporting buckles consisting of plates, wire eX- tending longitudinal of one side of the plate, bent and passed over the edge of and across one surface of the plate and the ends of the wire bent over the other edge of the plate and projecting outward to form supporting hooks, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids Michigan January 21 1907. I

. LEONA TANNER. In presence of EDGAR TANNER, I. J. CILLEY. 

